School spending, district by district

Here’s an interesting look at New York State school spending, based on Census data and brought to us by the Education Intelligence Agency.

The data is from the 2006-07 school year, which is about par for the course when it comes to tracking such things. The EIA is a freqent critic of teachers unions but this chart appears to be a pretty straightforward data listing, not unlike the information put out each year by th state Education Department in their annual Report Cards on the Schools.

EIA does note that in New York City schools, student enrollment dropped below 1 million students but staffing and spending both increased.